In an interview with UN Dispatch, Dr. Joanne Liu, international president of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, discusses how the organization responds to humanitarian crises around the world. View External Media.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) nurse and researcher, Chenai Mathabire, received the International Aids Society 2017 TB/HIV Research Prize for research on a rapid tuberculosis (TB) test. View External Media.

Medical professionals with Doctors Without Borders discuss their experiences vaccinating children against measles, the barriers to vaccination and working within the cold chain in Democratic Republic of Congo. View external media.

Newsweek discusses a new online platform launched by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) that allows individuals in the United States to know whether they have investments in Pfizer and GSK through their mutual funds or retirements plans (401k) and, if so, contact those companies to insist they drop the price of lifesaving vaccines. View external media.

Newsweek visits the Doctors Without Borders Special Hospital for Reconstructive Surgery in Amman, Jordan, to look into the growing number of Syrians who have acquired bacterial infections that are immune to almost all antibiotics. View external media.

Due to the absence of “global” solution to provide the pneumonia vaccine at an affordable price during emergencies, MSF had to pay more than 20 times the lowest global price to vaccinate more than 5000 children against the disease in Greece. Pfizer and GSK, the manufacturers of the vaccine, have refused to reduce the price of the vaccine. View external media.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has decried the high cost humanitarian organizations pay for vaccines – up to 20 times the normal prices – for vulnerable children in refugee settings. MSF is calling on drug companies to lower vaccine prices. View external media